The incident creates a huge diversion in the middle of the election cycle. The media has totally forgotten that Romney refused to show his taxes, and now the issue is two news cycles back. Neither side is going to do anything about gun control and its a stare down to see who is stupid enough to blink. Is Obama liberal enough? Is Romney conservative enough? Neither one is as they appear and neither one will do anything. The nation cries over the insanity of another shooting. This is another incident and many more are in our future. Peggy Wireman, your comments are very accurate. Something responsible needs to be done.

Quite frankly Peggy Wireman I'm getting a little sick of having to read about studies that show guns cause all sorts of evil, only to find they are fundamentally flawed 100% of the time. I'm willing to bet that this one, like Kellerman's piece of crap, didn't reliably find out if people had a gun in the home, unless it was involved in an incident. Of course just reading the abstract shows they admit there isn't a lot of studies on the benefit side (gee I wonder why?) so it's obviously useless. Not to mention that they DON'T mention compensating for the different demographics of gun owners and non-gun owners. Considering I know for a fact that the studies they reviewed don't do that I'm even more convinced it's crap.

Of course the fact that you think the right to own a gun has anything to do with hunting shows you're not only ignorant of the debate but determined to remain so. Prohibiting people with MISDEMEANOR convictions for domestic violence would probably only disarm male VICTIMS of such violence or other males falsely accused of such. If they had a case they'd have charged a felony, which does result in gun bans (I think rightly).

Your child is more likely to be shot to death than die of cancer. If you are under 35 years old, you are more likely to be shot to death than die from any specific disease. (Pp.167-168 in Wireman, Connecting the Dots: Government, Community and Family, Transaction Publishers, 2009)

This is a public health issue. We need to shift the conversation from the right to own a gun to how do we both respect responsible gun ownership and have public safety. We won’t allow people to drive a car without demonstrating that they can do it safely and pass a test on traffic laws.

I own a gun but sensible gun laws, such as restrictions on types used for killing a lot of people in seconds, would not interfere with hunters. Prohibiting people with history of domestic violence convictions would save women’s lives since attacks with guns are 12 times more likely to be fatal than those with knives.

A recent review of the scientific literature by the Harvard School of Public Health concluded that having a gun in the house increases the risk of gun accidents, intimidation and killing of women in their homes, completed suicides and does not reduce the likelihood or severity of injury during an altercation or break-in. (David Hemenway, Ph.D. “Risks and Benefits of a Gun in the Home,” American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, February 2, 2011)